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daze
/deɪz/
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What does daze mean?
noun
- The state of being dazed
- A glittering stone.
verb
- To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear.
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IPA pronunciation
/deɪz/
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He would go into a kind of daze, staring wide-eyed and blank across the room.
Flambeau looked at a Persian illumination on the wall; Father Brown, who seemed in a sort of daze, dully eyed the door.
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I wake up every morning and stare at Mrs. Lippett's wallpaper in a sort of daze, feeling as though it's some bad dream, and I'm not really here.
His eyes went rubbering round the room, and he seemed in a kind of daze, Till at last that old piano fell in the way of his wandering gaze.
Unless the children succeed in reading in some quite different idea of their own, they move about either as if in a hypnotic daze, or they respond to a direct excitation.